Although he fears the ramps might be unsafe, economics senior Mooney said he was willing to take a risk and construct them before the weather worsened.

“The temperature is on a steady decline, so that’s why we decided to do it last night before it got really cold,” Mooney said.

Another group of students had the same idea on Sunday night, turning the steps in front of their house on Albert Avenue into a sledding ramp.

“I might have been the first one to say it, but it was a pretty collective idea,”psychology junior Paula Fogarty said.

Fogarty and her roommates, interdisciplinary studies senior Sarah Straus and communication senior Elisa Balconi, were spending time with a few other friends when they noticed most of their neighbors were outside braving the cold and shoveling snow.

The group of six decided to join them in the below-freezing weather by constructing a snow ramp on the steps of their house, complete with a jump that leads into the street and a path for easy access winding up the stairs.

“We felt a little bad — all of our neighbors were out shoveling snow, and we made it worse,” Fogarty said.

Their ramp did draw a lot of attention from the neighbors. In fact, it sparked a gathering that multiple houses on the block flocked to that night.

“We always talked about doing this, but we never had enough snow,” Balconi said. “It started as a joke, then actually happened. Anything that could slide was going down, and everyone that saw us would come see what we were doing and end up staying.”

However, their slippery slope was the cause of multiple accidents, including one of their friends launching from the ramp onto the street, where he was hit by a slow-moving car. He and the driver escaped from the incident uninjured.

“He was hit from the side, almost like he was T-boned,” Fogarty said. “He was so determined to make the jump, too. The first time he actually made the jump into the street, he got hit.”

The friends once again took to the slope, refusing to let the incident deter them.

The next morning, after recovering from an evening of sledding and unexpected neighborly bonding, Fogarty said they planned on using the day off from classes to once again put their crowd-drawing ramp to good use.

“We’ve lived here for two years and never met our neighbors,” Balconi said. “This helped us all come together.”

Staff reporter Juliana Moxley contributed to this report.